Archive for January 13th, 2012

Bahrain on Friday said that the reinstatement of sacked workers and suspended students is moving ahead steadily. “A large number of the Bahraini employees and students dismissed for speech related activity during the unrest of February and March 2011 have been reinstated,” a spokesperson for the Information Affairs Authority (IAA) said.Read more »

The head of a liberal party in Bahrain has called for an end to the violence that has deepened tension in the country. “We do stress the significance of peaceful co-existence as part of our common destiny,” Hassan Madan, the head of the Progressive Democratic Tribune, said. “There is an urgent need to shun...Read more »

Six firemen were injured as they put out a fire at a nine-story building in the Farwaniya area in Kuwait City. Khaled Al Mikrad, the Head of Marine Rescue, told the media that the fire broke out at the basement of a residential building in Farwaniya.Read more »